Addressing Violent Crime and Improving Crisis Response
At the CSG Justice Center, we believe that communities deserve safety, victims deserve justice, and people in crisis deserve compassion.
In the U.S., more than 50% of violent crimes go unsolved, undermining victims’ and communities’ trust in their public safety systems. And while crime often gets more headlines, drugs and suicide claim far more lives.
Unfortunately, most traditional first responders aren’t trained to effectively respond to people experiencing mental health or substance use emergencies. Too often, law enforcement officers are the default response to calls that could be better handled by crisis professionals.
Our Solution: Reduce crime by prioritizing prevention and crisis intervention and freeing up police officers’ time to solve more crimes.
We work with states and communities to develop and implement data-driven, cross-systems strategies and solutions that prevent and solve crime and ensure people in crisis receive the right response at the right time.
Here’s how:
We help states and communities establish, fund, and sustain community responder programs that integrate behavioral health professionals into 911 systems.
We launched a first-of-its-kind statewide training and technical assistance center to expand the presence of crisis intervention teams (CITs) that reduce unnecessary arrests and hospitalizations.
We help states develop and implement statewide action plans to keep youth from cycling through the justice system.
We analyze the relationship between crime rates, clearance rates, and law enforcement spending—and work with policymakers to prevent and solve more crime.
We offer expert briefings for leaders on their state’s violent and property crime trends so they can make data-informed decisions.
Interested in working with us?